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Vent: My great-grandma's pressed flower collection got damp in the attic last spring
I found the old leather album when I was helping my mom clear out her house in Spokane. The pages were stuck together and the colors had run on maybe twenty of the flowers. It took me a full week, using a hair dryer on low and wax paper, to carefully separate them without tearing the paper. I felt like I was losing a piece of her history with every crumbly petal. Has anyone else saved a damaged collection like this, and what worked for you?
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taylor_park757mo ago
That wax paper trick is genius for saving delicate old paper.
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val5187mo ago
My grandma tried that on her 1910 cookbook but the wax bled into the ink on one page. @taylor_park75, did you iron it on a super low setting or just press it with something heavy? I'm worried about heat messing up the old glue in the binding.
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eva_thompson7mo ago
Wait, is that the trick where you iron wax paper onto it? Because I tried that on a map once and now my dining table has a permanent ghost of the Mississippi River.
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